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Apprenticeship Indenture, Charlotte Lahey to Charles Prideaux Brune, dated 6 July 1830

To John Kendall and Thomas Hawkey Overseers of the Poor of the Parish of Padstow in the said County of Cornwall. Whereas you the Overseers, having proposed unto us Richard Gully Bennet and Humphrey Williams Esquires Two of his Majesty’s Justices of the Peace, acting in and for the Hundred of Pydar within the said County of Cornwall under and by virtue of an Act of Parliament, passed in the Fifty Sixth Year of the Reign of his late Majesty George the Third, intituled "An Act to regulate the Binding of Parish Apprentices" to bind Charlotte Lahey a poor Child aged ten years belonging to your said parish of Padstow Apprentice to The Rev. Charles Prideaux Brune of the parish of Padstow in the County of Cornwall Clerk And whereas we the said Justices having this day enquired into the propriety of binding the said Child an Apprentice to the said Charles Prideaux Brune and having particularly examined and considered the several Directions contained in the said recited Act and also the circumstances and character of the said Charles Prideaux Brune do hereby declare that the said Charles Prideaux Brune is a fit Person to take the said Charlotte Lahey Apprentice as aforesaid: and do Order that you the said Overseers shall be at Liberty to Bind such Child Apprentice accordingly.- Given under our hands this Sixth day of July in the Year of our Lord, One Thousand Eight Hundred and thirty.

(signed) H. Williams
(signed) R.G. Bennett

(Handwritten addition on the left side of the Indenture)
 
County of }
Cornwall
 
Be it remembered that the within named The Reverend Charles Prideaux Brune by and with the consent and approbation of us two of His Majesty’s Justices of the Peace in and for the said County whose names are subscribed to the consent hereunder written doth hereby assign Charlotte Lahey the Apprentice within named unto Peter Vivian of the parish of Padstow Yeoman to serve him during the residue of the Term within mentioned
And that he the said Peter Vivian doth hereby agree to accept the said Charlotte Lahey as an Apprentice for the residue of the said Term and doth hereby acknowledge himself his Executors and Administrators to be bound by the agreements and Covenants within mentioned on the part of the said Charles Prideaux Brune to be done and performed pursuant to the provisions of an act passed in the 32nd Geo: 3rd intituled "An Act for the further regulation of parish Apprentices" Witness out Hand this 26th April 1831

(signed) Peter Vivian
(signed) Charles Prideaux Brune

We two of His Majesty’s
Justices of the Peace abovementioned
do consent hereto Witness
our Hands 26th April 1831
 
(signed) R.G. Bennet
(signed) H.Williams

N.B. Words in italics are insertions in a printed form, those in brackets and italics are inserted by the transcriber

Source:- LDS Film No. 1596395

 
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